The health of members, residents and passers-by of Umuagu quarter of Asaba, the Delta State capital have been placed in danger as one of the Private Sector Participants (PSPs) engaged by the state government to collect wastes from houses has abandoned its waste collection van along the ever busy Nne ...

World Health Organization (WHO) has deployed nearly 4,353 house to house volunteers to administer anti-malaria drugs in second and third cycle of malaria chemo-prevention campaigns in Borno and Adamawa states. WHO said it is ever determined to reverse the scourge of the malaria burden in North Ea ...

With more than 2 700 house to house volunteers across seven local government areas of Borno state, the 4th cycle of seasonal malaria chemoprevention campaign is reaching bout to 850,000 target groups of children and pregnant women. WHO Health Emergency programmes manager, Dr. Collins Owili weeken ...

The Federal Government has expressed worry that larger number of children in the country are at the risk of contacting Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) infection unless proactive measures are taken by all stakeholders to save the kids from the imminen ...

Wife of the Delta State governor, Dame Edith Okwa would on Thursday, 8 November 2018, launch the United Nations International Children 39;s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), aimed at reducing incidences of malnutrition and stunted growth among adolescent girls which would further decrease maternal deaths in ...

No home in Nigeria and beyond is free of plastic. It comes from the markets, farms, industries, hospitals, even imported into the country. Plastics are used and eventually dumped, when it becomes waste, then it becomes pollution. Plastic wastes have become a menace throughout the world. Its disadvan ...

World Health Organisation ( WHO) has warned that more than 90 percent of the world rsquo; s children breathe polluted air that puts their health and development at serious risk , and tragically kills many of them. It also called for acute response policies , measures and actions globally . Th ...

OLG Health Foundation, an NGO, on Thursday trained parents on how to care for children with special needs. Dr Doris Izuwah, Clinical Director, OLG Health Foundation, said that raising a child with special needs was very challenging so the foundation hopes to help parents reach out to their kids thro ...